On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Dann Corbit <DCorbit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My notion is to do a character mode database dump as SQL statements and > then load into the new version by execution of psql against the sql > STATEMENTS. > > What are the "gotchas" we can expect with this approach? > > When I say 'ancient' I mean v7.1.3 and the target is v8.3.5. > One gotcha is that some ancient versions (and I think 7.1 is one of these) used to silently truncate varchar values that don`t fit into the declared field width, while recent versions throw errors. Check if Your apps don`t depend on this behaviour. good luck Marcin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
